Poland reported the fall of an object resembling a Falcon 9 rocket fragment


An unknown object, very similar to a part from the Falcon 9 rocket of US company Ilon Musk's SpaceX, fell in the morning in the Polish village of Komorniki near the city of Poznan, Polsat News reported on February 19.
According to media reports, the object is about 1.5 meters long, wrapped in foil, and has a tube leading out of the middle of the part. Police are at the scene of the incident and the area is cordoned off. Pyrotechnics are also working.
At the fall of the object, no one was injured. About the discovery of the find is put in the notice of the Polish Space Agency. There began to study the records of cameras, which recorded the moment of landing the part.
"The object looks like a tank that fell on April 2, 2021 on a farm in central Washington state, then it was a fragment of the second stage of the Falcon-9 rocket", - commented on what happened astronomer Karol Wujcicki.
Earlier, on February 8, the Falcon 9 launch vehicle put into orbit 21 satellites for the Internet coverage network of the Starlink system. SpaceX noted that the Falcon 9 first stage returned after about eight minutes and landed successfully.
Falcon-9 belongs to the family of heavy-lift launch vehicles with a reusable first stage of the Falcon series.
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